Solution for "Failed to remove some directories" error when installing Ganache under nodeenv in virtual Python environment

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When Ganache installation fails in your virtual environment...

status as of 14. Mar 2022:
When installing nodeenv with pip it will install the latest nodejs version (today 17.7.1).
This will cause issues when you try installing Ganache or maybe other node-based applications.

Here is how to solve this and similar issues:

1. Find out which nodejs version works with your application.
2. nodeenv list will list all available nodejs versions.
3. after you have activated nodeenv with your (currently active) virtual Python environment like so ---
   nodeenv -p
4. you can switch to another node version with the following line
   nodeenv --node=16.14.0 -p

Which stands for Usage: nodeenv [OPTIONS] ENV_DIR, where -p is the python virtual environment in which nodeenv is active.